Those wild and crazy folks that bring you the eccentric and always entertaining lecture series,  Adult Ed at Union Hall, have a great line up this week.

This month’ s theme is:  
”Animal Minds, Animal Bodies” 
and it happens on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 – 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
 Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover.

Come see the following folks pontificate on their areas of expertise.

KATE KUNATH, “The Rabbit Stereotype and its American Exploitation” 
Kunath, a photographer who has studied rabbit breeders and their charges, discusses the history of rabbit breeding and its sometimes peculiar practices. Above is one of Kunath’s photos.

CARRIE McLAREN, “Why You Want a Monkey: On Primates Owning Primates”
 McLaren examines humans’ unconscious drive to have and to hold monkeys and apes.

ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ, “Bad Dog! Creating the Guilty Other in a Domestic Environment”
Anthropomorphic assumptions we make about dogs, deconstructed.

KRIOTA WILBERG, “The Amazing Fibroblast! Peter Parker’s Remarkable Transformation”
Drawing on examples from Hollywood’s Spiderman franchise, Wilberg explains how human wrist and hand anatomy would need to be altered in order to accommodate caches of radioactive spider silk.

Hosted, as always, by the inimitable Charles Star